Thirty days after a stem-cell transplant, Timmon Lund joined CrossFit St. Paul. “I wanted to get healthy again.” Nine months earlier, at 33, Lund had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The cancer limits the body’s ability to fight...

Brian Riley was exposed to CrossFit while serving as a Marine, but an injury overseas forced him to relearn everything. Now he’s putting his experiences as an adaptive athlete to good use at CrossFit Del Mar in San Diego, California. Riley was stationed in...

Why your doctor only wants to see you after something has gone wrong. Dr. Stephen Schimpff calls it the paradox of American medicine. “We have really well-trained, well-educated providers. We are the world’s envy for biomedical research. We’ve got...

MeiLin McDonald, 17, suffered a severe concussion during a basketball game as a child. The injury caused her eyes to become permanently dilated and left her unable to focus. McDonald’s physician suggested surgery to explore the possibility of inner-ear damage....

Doctors tell a Houston police sergeant her fitness allowed her to endure invasive surgery to remove a rare tumor that threatened to kill her. Kristi Barnes typed the words into Google: “transsectional abdominal incision.” It was about two weeks before her...

As a teen, Brandon Justice was told a genetic disorder would end his life sometime in his 30s. Because of CrossFit, doctors tell him he can now expect a normal lifespan. Eighteen-year-old Brandon Justice didn’t care about his health or his future. He did what he...